Monday, April 15, 2013

This weekend I competed in the Swedish Junior Championships in lead climbing. On Saturday I arrived at the arena feeling
excited to meet my friends again and to do my best in the competition.

The qualification went well; I topped both
routes, and I shared first place with Hannes Puman (who achieve an amazing 2nd
place at the Youth World Championship last year). In the final I kept my nerves
well together; I climbed well and efficiently up to a couple of moves below the
top. Then a miscalculation caused me to fall off. Hannes won gold and I got the
silver medal; a result I am extremely pleased with!

A big thanks to all those who made this
competition possible!

Sunday involved a short and sunny visit to
örnberget, my old home-crag in stockholm, with my friend Olle (who got the
bronze), before it was time to head back home to london.

Sunday, April 7, 2013

During the first three days it was just my dad and me but later our friends from Sweden joined us. It was a really fun trip with a lot of laughter, climbing and good weather for most of the time.

Getting excited by all cool routes

I returned home pleased, as it felt like my climbing had started to improve again. I did two 8a and two 7c+ and my
body was able to handle multiple days of climbing. The rest of the group also
climbed very well: Scott sending La Fabelita 8c, Olle doing his first 7c+
abroad and Peter showing extreme determination on his project that he most
likely would have climbed if illness had not stopped him. Another highlight was
to see Magnus Mitboe getting really close on his 9b project.

Hopefully it won’t be too long until I can
return to the amazing rock walls that Spain has to offer!!